Reading the pull quote out of context, I thought Mr. Obama was apologizing to those poor Democrat Senators and Representatives facing tough elections next year.

After reading the context, I think I'm still right. Explicitly Mr. Obama is making apology-sounding noises to people losing their insurance. Implicitly it's Senator Joe Manchin & company who are actually giving him heat.

The word "assurances" make sense in that context.

It certainly doesn't in terms of people losing their insurance. See TomHynes at the top.

What a load of shit. I've looked at "His" plans and they are utter garbage. I suspect the news is missing this because most reporters have kick-ass Cadillac plans and have no idea just how bad the Obamacare coverage is.

"my intention is to lift up and make sure the insurance that people buy is effective."

You mean, like forcing people in their 50s and 60s like me to buy maternity coverage? Or pediatric coverage?

"Or women were being charged more than men."

Insurance is based on risk. Men younger than 25 get charged more for car insurance and for good reason.

1. lying sack of shitn. one who habitually and effortlessly utters falsehoods in a most blatant and profane manner, all the while maintaining a lackadaisical appearance of ingenuousness; despite, or perhaps, due to the fact that their entire corporeal membrane is filled to bursting with an inexhaustible supply of foul, though nitrogen-rich fecal mendacities waiting to be excreted into their victims' ears - The Urban Dictionary

Well one way that Obama and his minions will attempt to "fix" this is to force insurance companies to do things to mitigate the damage. Obama is a constitutional law professor who doesn't seem to understand much about contracts.

My BCBS plan is gone also. Offered newe one is $2000 more deductible and 67% more expensive. At least I get pediatric and maternity coverage in case I get pregnant. I'm 62 and male so I could pay for it with the Enquirer money but now I won't have to. Yay ObastardCare!

"I am sorry that they found themselves in that act of terrorism based on assurances they got from me that the war on terror was over, we won, so reelect me and let's move on. We've got to work hard to make sure that they know we hear them and we are going to do everything we can to deal with folks who find themselves in a tough position as a consequence of this. And by 'this,' I mean my fairy tale presidency" - BHO, Sept. 12, 2012, speaking of the American diplomatic mission at Benghazi, in Libya, which was attacked on September 11, 2012, by a heavily armed group of... terrorism actors .

But they're not "finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from" President Obama. They're "finding themselves in this situation" because of the law. You can't apologize for the law, Mr. Obama, and think that makes it all better.

"I'm not wrong. We'll keep pushing this load of crap on the American people. We'll make some token effort to make a couple of people happier, but we're damn sure working overtime to root out all criticism and put those people out of work or in jail. The DOJ, HHS, IRS EPA, FDA, DHS, ATF, and other agencies at my disposal are being issued steroids and amphetamines as we speak."

I DO want an apology from every shit-for-brains, smug, liberal reporter who blindly bought Obama's and the Dems' fantasies, and ignored the regs that were written THREE years ago, that projected the numbers of Americans who would lose their plans. And blindly ignored economic reality to buy that the new plans would LOWER costs - when tens of millions more people were supposed to get coverage - on our nickel.

You didn't do your job, and now tens of millions of Anericans who DID have insurance and were responsible citizens are being or will be screwed.

And you're STILL not doing your job, because you're not reporting how the regs also forecast half of people on employer plans will get canceled, too - it's just that that day of reckoning has been conveniently postponed for a year.

DavidD said...But they're not "finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from" President Obama. They're "finding themselves in this situation" because of the law. You can't apologize for the law, Mr. Obama, and think that makes it all better.----------------

last night I saw Kelly Files, a cancer patient whose insurance was cancelled and he talked about how much the replacement cost. He said he would not put his children through that kind of financial hardship and would let nature take its course. There, Obama, you have his 'suicide' note. How many like him are out there? Death panel takes on a new meaning, indeed.

Fuck you barry, fuck you and bugger off you lying sack. Fuck you and bugger off to everyone who voted for your shit pile obamacare. Fuck you and bugger off to everyone, every single one of you who, lying, defended barry and his shit pile. You should all be groveling apologetic on your knees before those of us screwed over by you piss on you. What a bunch of lying, ignorant fucks each and every one of you is.

1. On many of them, almost every single doctor was in the network. That means that when you met the 1/1000 who took no insurance at all, you were confused. Now, people will get used to checking to see if a doc is covered.

2. On those old, crummy, plans, you could often see a specialist without a referral. No 'visit the PCP for this weird mole' first... you could just say 'dang, that looks like melonoma' and head straight to the dermatologist. That's crazy! It's much better to have to WAIT to receive care, so you have a chance to resign yourself to your fate.

3. Under the old plans, there were too many choices. Imagine someone who's just diagnosed with cancer. Do they really need the stress of trying to figure out which cancer center is best for their particular case, and then the added stress of traveling to and from treatment? The plethora of choices was cruel and unusual. Now, they can just go to the closest hospital, survival rates be danged, and be at peace, knowing that someone else has made all the choices for them.

In other words, the policies being canceled let the middle class have the same benefits as the wealthy. That's ridiculous. The wealthy's health care isn't special if the local plumber has it too! Those were bad plans. Now, we'll have more equality in health care. Except for the political class. Because it's no fun being a noble if the burghers have all the same stuff you do.

I don't think this can possibly be a bonanza for the insurance companies if people are going to "go naked" rather than sign up for the new glorious "Obamaplans" that they can't afford, or just plain don't like and will not cooperate with.

I do think that this is a slow-motion trainwreck that is now well under way, and no one can tell just what the outcomes are going to be.

If by some miracle they get past all this "roll-out" circus, and get people to signed up to these plans within "the system," I also think it is impossible for "the system" to work, i.e, you go to a doctor or clinic and have a procedure performed, the doctor or clinic will just have a hope that he/it will get paid for doing the work someday, and they can't stay in business long that way.

Whatever happens, I think Obama and the loony left have succeeded in wrecking the present system, and it is anybody's guess what will eventually replace it.

This healthcare fiasco should be presented every time the government wants to expand its power. Unlike private sector companies and the ability to move one's business from one company to another, from government incompetence there is no escape.

He can't "fix it," Freeman. Not only that he does not want to, but every attempt at "fixing it" will create new problems; it is now a moving situation, and there is no telling where it will end, or what the landscape will look like by then.

Unfortunately, fixing this before the damage is done to all those who are being canceled come 1/1/14 is about as feasible as fixing the train as it's in the process of jumping the tracks. Way too many parts in motion, way too many forces in play.

The only way it makes sense is if he means that his assurances caused people to believe him. Instead, they should have assumed he was full of BS and gone out to "upgrade" their insurance to make it Obamacare compliant.